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Page 28
... substance ; but the true religion and holy Christian faith lays hold of the reality itself , by imprinting upon men's Nic . Eth . vii . 1 . 2 Pliny , Paneg . 1. c . 74 . souls , Charity , which is excellently called " the 28 TRANSLATION ...
... substance ; but the true religion and holy Christian faith lays hold of the reality itself , by imprinting upon men's Nic . Eth . vii . 1 . 2 Pliny , Paneg . 1. c . 74 . souls , Charity , which is excellently called " the 28 TRANSLATION ...
Page 56
... substance also . For when the example is laid down as the ground of the discourse , it is set down with all the attendant circumstances , which may sometimes correct the discourse thereupon made , and sometimes supply it , as a very ...
... substance also . For when the example is laid down as the ground of the discourse , it is set down with all the attendant circumstances , which may sometimes correct the discourse thereupon made , and sometimes supply it , as a very ...
Page 59
... substance ; in honour principally , that pragmatical men may not imagine that learning is like a lark , which can mount and sing and please itself and nothing else ; but may know that it rather partakes of the nature of a hawk , which ...
... substance ; in honour principally , that pragmatical men may not imagine that learning is like a lark , which can mount and sing and please itself and nothing else ; but may know that it rather partakes of the nature of a hawk , which ...
Page 74
... substance from it either now or hereafter , he may try at all events to win some good opinion by it , or the like ; by always exacting an account of himself , by which it may appear that each action and scheme has borne him some fruit ...
... substance from it either now or hereafter , he may try at all events to win some good opinion by it , or the like ; by always exacting an account of himself , by which it may appear that each action and scheme has borne him some fruit ...
Page 77
... substance , but a seventh of our time . For what advantage is it to have a face erected towards heaven , with a spirit perpetually grovelling upon earth , eating dust like the serpent ? As the heathen also observed , " the particle of ...
... substance , but a seventh of our time . For what advantage is it to have a face erected towards heaven , with a spirit perpetually grovelling upon earth , eating dust like the serpent ? As the heathen also observed , " the particle of ...
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